Dr. Rose Stremlau Assistant Professor Department of History Davidson College Box 7128 Davidson, NC 28035 rostremlau@davidson.edu www.historyandacookie.com Education: Ph.D., American History, May 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) Dissertation: Cherokee Families: Cultural Resilience during the Allotment Era. Advised by Professors Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green M.A., American History, August 2001, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill B.A., History & Sociology, Cum Laude, May 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cherokee Nation History Course, September 2003, Oklahoma City Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History Courses taught: American History to 1877; United States since 1877; Native South; Native Women; Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1870 Previous Teaching Experience: Associate Professor, Departments of History and American Indian Studies and Gender Studies Program, University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), fall 2006-spring 2016 Courses taught: History of American Indians to 1865; History of American Indians since 1865; United States History since 1865; American Indians of the Southeast; Women and the Development of U.S. Society; Women in U.S History, 1870-Present; History of Sexuality; Indigenous Women; Indian Residential and Boarding School Narratives; Historical Methods Visiting Professor, Women s and Gender Studies Program, Wake Forest University, spring 2006 Courses taught: Ethnohistory of Native American Women; Introduction to Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Teaching Fellow, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, fall 2005 Course taught: United States History to 1865 Monograph: Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Winner, Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians Honorable Mention, Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, American Society for Ethnohistory Finalist, Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, Center for Great Plains Studies
Rose Stremlau 2 Articles, Essays, and Other Publications: Teaching American Indian Women s Stories in the University Classroom. Co-authored with Jane Haladay. In American Indian Women of Proud Nations: Essays on History, Language, and Education. Edited by Cherry Beasley, Mary Ann Jacobs, and Ulrike Weithaus. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. 143-61. WNIA Chapters in the South. In The Women s National Indian Association: A History. Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. 173-91. WNIA Missions in the South. In The Women s National Indian Association: A History. Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. 102-25. I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do : Sarah Winnemucca Writes about Rape on the Northern Paiute Frontier. In Women s America: Refocusing the Past. 7 th edition. Edited by Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, and Cornelia Hughes Dayton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 272-82. Originally published as Rape Narratives on the Northern Paiute Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca, Sexual Sovereignty, and Economic Autonomy, 1844-1891. In Portraits of Women in the American West. Edited by Dee Garceau. New York: Routledge, 2005. 37-60. In Defense of This Great Family Government and Estate : Cherokee Masculinity and the Opposition to Allotment. In Southern Masculinities: Perspectives on Manhood in the South Since Reconstruction. Edited by Craig T. Friend. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 65-82. Indian Men and Women. In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Gender volume. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 146-49. To Domesticate and Civilize Wild Indians : Allotment and the Campaign to Reform Indian Families, 1875-1887. Journal of Family History 30:3 (July 2005): 265-86. Native Americans. In The Encyclopedia of Rape. Edited by Merril Smith. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. 137-39. People, Places, and Events (with Karl Davis). In The Columbia Guide to Native Americans in the Southeast. By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 150-219. Upcoming Publications: Barbara Hildebrand Longknife: A Cherokee Life in the Age of American Empire, book manuscript. Witnessing the West: Barbara Longknife and the California Gold Rush, essay for inclusion in The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies. Edited by Greg O Brien and Tim Garrison. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, upcoming fall 2016. Allotment, Jim Crow, and the State: Reconceptualizing the Privatization of Land, the Segregation of Bodies, and Politicization of Sexuality in the Native South, Indians as Southerners; Southerners as Indians: A Special Edition of Native South. Edited by Greg O Brien, Andrew Frank, and Kristofer Ray, upcoming 2017.
Rose Stremlau 3 Digital History: Lumbee Women in the Twentieth Century. Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires, Since 1820. Co-edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin. Hosted by SUNY-Binghamton. Anticipated fall 2016. http://chswg.binghamton.edu/wasi/wame-about.html Native Americans in the Civil War, essay co-authored with Malinda Maynor-Lowery and Joseph Genetin-Pilawa for inclusion in the Essential Civil War Curriculum. Hosted by the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. Anticipated late 2016. www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com Native American Women, Oxford Bibliography in Atlantic History. Hosted by Oxford University Press. Anticipated December 2016. www.oxfordbibliographies.com Papers and Comments Given at Professional Meetings and Conferences: Round table participant, Indigenous Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Past, Present, and Future Directions, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, May 2016. Barbara Hildebrand Longknife: A Cherokee Life in the Age of American Empire, Southeast Indian Studies conference, Pembroke, NC, April 2016. Participant, You Can t Do Southern History without American Indians: A Roundtable Discussion, Southern Association for Women Historians conference, Charleston, SC, June 2015. Organizer and round table participant, The Native South: A Critical Intervention, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, Washington, D.C., June 2015. Chair, Women, Patriarchy, and Land Negotiations in the Removal and Allotment Eras, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, Washington, D.C., June 2015. Organizer and co-chair, Finer than Frog Hair: Celebrating Mike Green, American Society for Ethnohistory conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 2014. Comments, Life and Death on the Trail of Tears: Debating, Enacting, and Remembering Indian Removal, Western History Association conference, Tucson, AZ, October 2013. Indigenous Studies Publishing Roundtable: Insights from an Author, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, Saskatoon, SK, June 2013. American Indian History: The State of the Field, Organization of American Historians conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2013. Learning Across Borders: Creating Collaborative Exchange Relationships to Serve Indigenous Students and Their Communities, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, Uncasville, CT, June 2012. A Good Type of Healthy, Honest Indian : Race, Class, Gender and the Cherokee Transition to Oklahoma Statehood. Southern Historical Association conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2011.
Rose Stremlau 4 Papers and Comments Given at Professional Meetings and Conferences, continued: We Look in All Directions: Southeast American Indian Studies and Northern and Aboriginal Studies Collaboration between University College of the North and UNCP. Southeast Indian Studies Conference, Pembroke, NC, April 2011. My Husband and No Other: Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship in the Allotment Era. Western History Association conference, Lake Tahoe, NV, October 2010. Cataloging Kinship: Cherokee Grandmothers and the Making of the Dawes Rolls. American Society for Ethnohistory conference, New Orleans, LA, October 2009. Always for the People: Teaching American Indian Women s Stories in the University Classroom. With Jane Haladay. Conference for American Indian Women of Proud Nations, Pembroke, NC, September 2009. Comments, panel on Native American Women in the Early South. Southern Association for Women Historians conference, Columbia, SC, June 2009. Redefining Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and the Dawes Rolls. Southeast Indian Studies conference, Pembroke, NC, April 2009. Responding to Self-constituted Guardians and Interested Intermeddlers : Cherokee Masculinity and the Opposition to Allotment. American Society for Ethnohistory conference, Tulsa, OK, November 2007. Panel organizer. Cherokee Families: Cultural Resilience during the Allotment Era, 1882-1934. New Directions in American Indian Research conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2005. Sexual Violence and Economic Autonomy: Sarah Winnemucca s Narratives of Rape on the Northern Paiute Frontier. American Society for Ethnohistory conference, Chicago, IL, October 2004. Land, Law, Citizenship, and Manhood: Cherokee Masculinity during the Allotment Era. Organization of American Historians conference, Boston, MA, March 2004. Panel organizer. Gender and the Politics of Allotment. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Storrs, CT, June 2002. Panel organizer. Reforming the Reformer: Native American Women, Alice Fletcher, and Allotment. American Society for Ethnohistory conference, London, ON, October 2000. From Squaw to Pocahontas Princess: White Women of the Illini Tribe at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class. American Sociological Association conference, Chicago, IL, August 1999. Invited Talks: The Last Generation and the First Generation: Cherokee Children in Post-Removal Indian Territory, From Removal to Rebirth: The Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory, Helmerich Center for American Research Symposium. Tulsa, OK, April 2016. Cherokee History is Family History. Friends of Moccasin Bend Lecture Series, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, November 2015.
Rose Stremlau 5 Invited Talks, continued: Three Things I Wish Everyone Knew about American Indian History (That You Can t Learn From Disney and Dances with Wolves). American Indian Mothers, Inc., Walking In Many Worlds Conference, Pembroke, NC, October 2015. Historicizing Empowerment: Recognizing American Indian Women s Agency in the Past. 2015 Native Leaders Symposium, The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 2015. American Indian History IS U.S. History. American Indian Studies, Electa Quinney Institute and the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 2015. Allotment, Sexuality, and the State: Reconceptualizing the Privatization of Land and the Politicization of Indigenous Bodies. Indians as Southerners, Southerners as Indians Symposium, Florida State University, September 2014. American Indian Studies: The Heart of the Matter. With Jane Haladay and Mary Ann Jacobs. American Indian Studies Scholars Series, Native American Resource Center, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, November 2013. Book talks on Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation given at the following venues: American Indian Heritage Celebration, North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC, November 2012. Association of the Descendants of Nancy Ward meeting, Tahlequah, OK, September 2012. Native American Studies Academy Symposium, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, March 2012. Faculty Showcase, Livermore Library, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, September 2011. Sequoyah Distinguished Lecture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2011. Sustaining the Cherokee Family From Dissertation to Book. Carolina Seminar on American Indian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 2012. American Indians in North Carolina during the Civil War. Gaston County, NC Public Library, November 2011. Keynote, American Association of University Women, Greensboro Branch, holiday luncheon, December 2009. Cherokee Families: Cultural Persistence during the Allotment Era. Gender Studies brown bag series, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, October 2009. Redefining Belonging: Cherokee Families and the Compilation of the Dawes Rolls. Native American Studies Academy symposium, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, March 2009. A Response to Self-constituted Guardians and Interested Intermeddlers : Cherokee Statesmen s Opposition to Allotment. State of Sequoyah conference, Tahlequah, OK, August 2007.
Rose Stremlau 6 Invited Talks, continued: In Defense of This Great Family Government and Estate : Cherokee Masculinity and the Opposition to Allotment. Symposium on the American Indian, Northeastern State University, April 2007. Rape and Resistance: Sarah Winnemucca and Sexual Sovereignty in the American West. Sequoyah Symposium on Southern Indians, Western Carolina University, April 2003. Honors and Awards: Student Athlete Advisory Committee Excellence in Teaching Award, UNCP 2016 Adolph L. Dial Award for Scholarship and Creative Work, UNCP, 2013 University Teaching Award, UNCP, 2009 Outstanding Dissertation on Oklahoma History, Oklahoma Historical Society, 2006 Royster Society of Fellows, Graduate School, UNC-CH, 2004-05 Phi Beta Kappa, inducted spring 1999 Golden Key National Honor Society, inducted fall 1997 Phi Alpha Theta, inducted spring 1997 External Fellowships and Grants: Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2015 Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2015 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 2014 American Fellow, American Association of University Women, 2009-10 American Society for Ethnohistory Graduate Student Travel Award, 2004 Phillips Fund Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2003 Internal Fellowships and Grants: UNCP: HOPES Fellowship, Teaching and Learning Center, 2015; Teaching Enhancement Award, Teaching and Learning Center, 2013-14, 2011-12, and 2010-11; Faculty Research and Development Grant, Teaching and Learning Center, 2012-13 and 2011-12; HOPES Fellowship, Teaching and Learning Center, 2012; Summer Research Fellowship, Teaching and Learning Center, 2007 UNC-CH: Sequoyah Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, 2004-05; Sequoyah Off-campus Research Dissertation Grant, Graduate School, 2003; Waddell Dissertation Research Grant, Department of History, 2003; Smith Grant, Graduate School, 2002; Holsenbeck Grant, Davis Library, 2002; Summer Research Grant, Center for the Study of the American South, 2002; Mowry Research Grant, Department of History, 2002; Democracy & Democratization Fellowship, University Center for International Studies, 2001-02; Waddell Memorial Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, 2000-01; McColl Fellowship, Center for the Study of the American South, 1999-2000; Howard Auman Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, 1999-2000
Rose Stremlau 7 Book Reviews Written for the Following Journals: Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Ethnohistory, Western Historical Quarterly, The Historian, Journal of American Ethnic History, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Wicazo Sa Review, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies, The South Carolina Historical Magazine, North Carolina Historical Review, Florida Historical Quarterly, Journal of the West, Southern Historian, Pacific Northwest Quarterly: A Scholarly Journal of Northwest, Pacific Historical Review, Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Blog Posts and Other Editorial Writing: Posts and short writing published online by First Peoples, University of North Carolina Press, and the Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education). Please see my web page for links. Select University Service: UNCP: Service on the Following University-wide Committees: Student Affairs and Campus Life committee, 2014-2016 Faculty Awards committee, 2013-15 Interpersonal Violence-Sexual Assault Response committee, 2011-2016 Service Learning committee, 2008-2011 History Department SACS assessment committee, 2008-09 Service on the Following Departmental Committees: Member, Post-tenure Review committee, fall 2015 Member, Tenure and Promotion committees, fall 2012 and fall 2013 Member, First-year Review committee, fall 2009 and fall 2011 Member, Search committee, 2007-08, and 2015-16 Mentoring of Students: Advisor, Two Honors Theses and PURC presentation, Laura Spillman, 2015 Independent Study (with Christie Poteet), Kevin Melvin, 2015 Independent Study, Megan Johnson, 2015 Advisor, PURC Undergraduate Scholar Assistantship, LeAnn Strickland, 2013 Co-advisor, Honors Thesis, Jennifer Cooper, 2010-11 Advisor, Honors Thesis, Amanda Swinton, 2008-09 Advisor, Alpha Pi Omega, 2007-08 Programming: Coordinated with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Livermore Library to being the museum exhibit Pride and Politics: The 150th Anniversary of the Lowry War to campus, 2015 Co-organizer, Carolina Indians and the American Civil War, funded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, the Library of America, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, November 2013
Rose Stremlau 8 Select University Service, continued: Programming, continued: Member, coordinating committee, Southeast Indian Studies conference, 2007-2016 Member, coordinating committee, Native American Speaker Series, 2006-2016 Member, coordinating committee, River People Festival, 2010-11 Member, coordinating committee, International Indigenous Exchange Consortium, 2013- current and University College of the North, 2009-11 Coordinated Visits of the Following Guest speakers: 2015-16: Edward Behrend-Martinez; Sarah Deer 2014-15: Marty Richardson; Clyde Ellis 2013-14: Mark Rifkin 2011-12: Jim Northrup 2010-11: Lydia Whirlwind Soldier; Jan Davidson 2009-10: Dr. William McKee Evans; Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery 2008-09: Jesse Oxendine; Ruth Dial Woods Affiliations: Member, Graduate Faculty, 2012-2016 Moderator, AIS Facebook page, 2009-2016 Member, Esther G. Maynor Honors College faculty, 2008-2016 Miscellaneous: Advisor, Indian Students, White Schools Project, 2014-15 Moderator, Hail to UNCP!: A 125 Year History book talk, November 2014 Panelist, Comic Culture with Dr. Terence Dollard, April 2014 Reader, Hail to UNCP!: A 125 Year History, 2013 Member, coordinating team, Lumbee Veterans Project, 2008-12 Member, E-Text Reader Faculty Pilot Study, DoIT, 2009 Participant, Supplemental Instruction Program, 2008-10 Speaker, Writing Across the Curriculum Panel, November 2006 Guest, Academe Today, WNCP-TV, Fall 2006 Wake Forest University: Coordinator, Spiderwoman Film Series, spring 2006 UNC-CH: Co-coordinator, New Directions in American Indian Research Conference, October 2005 and March 2004 Research Assistant and American Indian Recruitment Coordinator, Graduate School, January- August 2004 and May-December 2005 Editor, Proceedings of the New Directions in American Indian Research Conference, 2004 Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of History, 2004-05 Co-president, Graduate History Society, Department of History, 2003-04 Graduate Student Recruitment Coordinator, Department of History, 2003 Member, Committee on Teaching, Department of History, and History Department Liaison, University Center for Teaching and Learning, 2001-02
Rose Stremlau 9 Select Professional Experiences and External Service: Conference volunteer, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2016 Guest Lecturer in Graduate Colloquium on American Indian History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, online via Skype, March 2016 UCLA Extension Course in Cherokee Society and Government, online via Skype, May 2015 Service on the following committees: Board, Indians and Southern History Series, University of Alabama Press, 2016-current Editorial board of NAIS: Native American and Indigenous Studies, 2015-19 Wheeler-Voegelin Book Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory, 2013 Willie Lee Rose Book Prize Committee, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2013 Committee on Minorities, Southern Historical Association, 2013-14 Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2012 Reader for the following journals, university presses, and scholarly organizations: University of North Carolina Press, 2016 Journal of Social History, 2016 University Press of Kansas, 2015 University of Nebraska Press, 2015 American Nineteenth Century History, 2015 Native South, 2015 University of Alabama Press, 2015 Frontiers: A Journal of Women s Studies, 2014 and 2007 University of Oklahoma Press, 2015 and 2014 Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 2014 Native American and Indigenous Studies, 2013 National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program, 2013 University of Georgia Press, 2015 and 2013 American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012 and 2011 Social Science History, 2011 American Indian Quarterly, 2009 University of New Mexico Press, 2007 Professional Development: Safe Zone Ally Program, fall 2015 BRIDGES: Academic Leadership for Women Program, 2013 Future Faculty Fellowship Program, Center for Teaching and Learning, UNC-CH, May 2005